Director: Jeff Hare
A true-crime podcaster gets pulled back into her hometown's darkest unsolved case in 'The Killer With No Name', a 2024 thriller directed by Jeff Hare.
What is The Killer With No Name about?
Years after leaving her small hometown behind, a podcast host returns for reasons that quickly become more complicated than a simple visit. A recent death in town reopens wounds from a case that was never fully solved, and old rumors start circulating again among neighbors who thought the story was buried for good. Professional curiosity turns personal fast: the deeper she digs into old testimonies and half-remembered details, the more she realizes someone does not want the truth surfacing. What begins as research for her show becomes a genuine cat-and-mouse pursuit, with the podcaster caught between chasing a story and becoming part of one. Small-town loyalties, guarded secrets, and a killer who has stayed hidden for years all collide as she pushes toward an answer that several people in town would clearly prefer stayed unspoken.
Cast & crew
Kabby Borders leads the film as the podcast host whose search for closure turns increasingly dangerous, playing the role with a mix of stubborn curiosity and mounting unease. John Zimmermann, Adam Harper, and Will Holland fill out the small-town ensemble of neighbors and suspects, while Brianna Butler and Brian Childers add texture to a cast built around long-buried secrets and shifting loyalties.
Context & significance
Director Jeff Hare works within the small-scale mystery-thriller tradition that favors close, character-driven tension over large-scale spectacle, using the confines of a small town to heighten suspicion between neighbors. The film's 2024 release taps into the broader popularity of true-crime podcasting as a framing device, using the format to justify a fresh outsider's perspective on a case the town would rather forget.
Where & how to watch
'The Killer With No Name' is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking audiences can follow every twist of the investigation clearly. This page is free to read without an account, and streaming the film only requires logging into a free K-Time account, part of a Farsi-focused catalog built for the Iranian diaspora.